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The World Food Program, the food relief agency of the United Nations, has announced that it is “extremely concerned" about recent images across social media platforms and websites supporting the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL), in which food relief supplies distributed by the UN appear to have been rebranded with the ISIS logo, reports...

In a detailed analysis of President Obama’s dining habits and food preferences since he took office six years ago, Time magazine dedicates a lengthy infographic to the “burger joints, steakhouses, and date night destinations where you can find America’s Eater-in-Chief."
According to data gathered from more than 12,400 reports filed by the White...

Faith Seidenberg — the lawyer whose brave venture into then-males-only McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, New York with a friend one freezing January evening in 1969, led to a landmark ruling that barred public establishments from discrimination based on sex— has died at the age of 91, reports The New York Times.
Seidenberg recalled years...

In his latest op-ed for The New York Times, longtime columnist and food journalist Mark Bittman calls for a closer look at the country’s national food policy, which he has done previously in a collaborative editorial on The Washington Post.
In his op-ed “Let’s Address the State of Food,” Bittman highlights some troubling information about the...

At the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, a laboratory in Nebraska where scientists focus on ways that the meat industry can produce the most meat — through surgery and breeding techniques — the health and wellbeing of those animals (pigs, cattle, and sheep) is of “pebble-sized concern,” in the words of James Keen, a scientist and veterinarian who...

During a recent discussion about American cyber security in New York, United States Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. described his November visit to North Korea to discuss the terms of release for two imprisoned Americans, and a dinner with the Dear Leader the night before he retrieved them.
Clapper described the dinner, “an...

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Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in 2011, has opened a West African restaurant in the Bronx, reports...

Not that long ago, American palates were swept up by the invention of a certain hybrid pastry that led to hours-long lines just to try a bite. Remember that? For not a small amount of time, it seemed like ...

Billy Reed, the owner of an eponymous restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif. has issued a new rule for his employees banning them from speaking Spanish while they are working anywhere in the front-of-house, reports...

Prominent Indian chef Vikas Khanna, of the Michelin-starred Junoon in New York City is in talks with a Hollywood studio to develop a biopic about the chef’s journey from Amritsar, India to the United States, ...

At least 40 patrons of Cholula’s Bakery in Santa Ana, Calif. have fallen ill after eating Three Kings bread that was laced with a synthetic drug, with symptoms ranging from nausea to hallucinations, ...